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Released
1988 · FILM

Cocoon: The Return

Elderly friends who once discovered an ageless alien sanctuary must decide whether to return home to eternal youth or stay on Earth, risking their newfound freedom for the love of family and the life they've built.

“Journey to the most wonderful place in the universe... home.”

Directed by
Daniel Petrie
Written by
David Saperstein, Stephen Mcpherson
Runtime
116 min
AdventureComedyMystery

Synopsis

A group of elderly individuals who had previously left Earth return to visit their relatives. The question remains: will they all choose to return to the planet where no one ages, or will they be tempted to stay on Earth?

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mark WarnerShot by Tak FujimotoScored by James HornerDesigned by Lawrence G Paull

Box Office

1988 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$25.0M

Budget$17.5M
Worldwide gross$25.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $18.9M — 76% of worldwide · International: $6.1M (24%)

Opening weekend: $5.6M — 29% of its US run.

Peak 986 theaters

Also known as

  • Cocoon II - Die Rückkehrde
  • Cocoon: el regresoes
  • Cocoon, le retourfr
  • Cocoon - Il ritornoit

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